Racialized Motherhood
@rm-project.bsky.social
DFF-funded project documenting and analyzing early modern discourses about women's reproductive roles in the Atlantic World @ucph.bsky.social Website: https://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/history/racialised-motherhood/
#CfP - "Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present: Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue". Deadline for abstracts: 1st April 2026 📨 teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...
Call for Papers - Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present: Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue
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November 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#CfP - "Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present: Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue". Deadline for abstracts: 1st April 2026 📨 teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...
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We are excited to have Professor Sue Peabody @profpeabs.bsky.social join us for a talk about methods and microhistory. Join us on 20 November 2025, 1-3 PM at UCPH @ucph.bsky.social , South Campus, room 12.3.39.
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We are excited to have Professor Sue Peabody @profpeabs.bsky.social join us for a talk about methods and microhistory. Join us on 20 November 2025, 1-3 PM at UCPH @ucph.bsky.social , South Campus, room 12.3.39.
Project team member @feliciafricke.bsky.social has just published a new blog post about widows in St. Eustatius around 1800 #Caribbean #history #colonialism You can read it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/10/31/c...
Creole Widows as the Most Stable Portion of Colonial Society
By Felicia J. Fricke. Between 1789 and 1830, the population structure of the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius changed markedly. At the beginning of this period, the island was populated by 4…
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October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Project team member @feliciafricke.bsky.social has just published a new blog post about widows in St. Eustatius around 1800 #Caribbean #history #colonialism You can read it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/10/31/c...
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Excited to present my research about widows and #Caribbean colonialism on Thurs 6 Nov at @lnuccon.bsky.social - you can attend in person or online. Hope to see you there! 🤗 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800
Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!
lnu.se
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Excited to present my research about widows and #Caribbean colonialism on Thurs 6 Nov at @lnuccon.bsky.social - you can attend in person or online. Hope to see you there! 🤗 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
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On 18 Nov I will be giving a guest lecture about my work on fugitive motherhood in the #Caribbean at @lund-university.bsky.social in the #GlobalHistory Seminar Series. Sign up here! www.sol.lu.se/en/the-depar...
September 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
On 18 Nov I will be giving a guest lecture about my work on fugitive motherhood in the #Caribbean at @lund-university.bsky.social in the #GlobalHistory Seminar Series. Sign up here! www.sol.lu.se/en/the-depar...
In 1847, there was a discussion in the Dutch East Indies about whether to free children born to enslaved mothers. Read two very different accounts of what happened in our new #blogpost by @idalvos.bsky.social: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/23/f...
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
In 1847, there was a discussion in the Dutch East Indies about whether to free children born to enslaved mothers. Read two very different accounts of what happened in our new #blogpost by @idalvos.bsky.social: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/23/f...
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We are here at the #ABRE2025 conference in Salamanca with the @rm-project.bsky.social. Yesterday we caught an amazing talk by Mateusz Czarnota on Conceição Evaristo’s idea of #escrevivência: writing born from lived experience of Afro-descendent women. Inspiring for our work on #RacializedMotherhood
September 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We are here at the #ABRE2025 conference in Salamanca with the @rm-project.bsky.social. Yesterday we caught an amazing talk by Mateusz Czarnota on Conceição Evaristo’s idea of #escrevivência: writing born from lived experience of Afro-descendent women. Inspiring for our work on #RacializedMotherhood
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New #OpenAccess #publication! 🚨 Creole widows were the most long-lived free people in 1780s-1820s St. Eustatius, Dutch #Caribbean - their stability was therefore instrumental in upholding colonialism. @inthesamesea.bsky.social @rm-project.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Stability and survival: Creole widowhood in St. Eustatius, 1780s-1820s
This article articulates the mortality gap between non-Caribbean (foreign) men and Caribbean (Creole) women on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centurie...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
New #OpenAccess #publication! 🚨 Creole widows were the most long-lived free people in 1780s-1820s St. Eustatius, Dutch #Caribbean - their stability was therefore instrumental in upholding colonialism. @inthesamesea.bsky.social @rm-project.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The first #RacializedMotherhood #publication is out! A chapter in 'The Routledge Handbook of Information #History' looks at what fugitive ads in newspapers can tell us about both the violence of slavery and about the freedom seekers. Read more on our #blog:
racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/05/b...
racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/05/b...
September 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The first #RacializedMotherhood #publication is out! A chapter in 'The Routledge Handbook of Information #History' looks at what fugitive ads in newspapers can tell us about both the violence of slavery and about the freedom seekers. Read more on our #blog:
racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/05/b...
racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/09/05/b...
We are pleased to announce that the Racialized Motherhood project now has a #webpage ✨ Find out more about what we are working on - including a #blog and #podcast! 📰🎙️https://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/history/racialised-motherhood/
Racialised Motherhood: Documenting and Analysing Early Modern Discourses on Reproduction – University of Copenhagen
saxoinstitute.ku.dk
September 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Project postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social will be presenting in #Sweden at @lnuccon.bsky.social Linnaeus University on 6 November! 🥳 Come along to hear about how long-lived widows contributed to colonial stability in the #Caribbean 🌎
September 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Project postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social will be presenting in #Sweden at @lnuccon.bsky.social Linnaeus University on 6 November! 🥳 Come along to hear about how long-lived widows contributed to colonial stability in the #Caribbean 🌎
Project PhD student @idalvos.bsky.social recently presented her research at the 9th Global Meeting of Slavery Past, Present and Future, which was held at the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. She talked about the role of religion in Dutch and Spanish free womb discussions in the 1850s and 1870s.
July 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Project PhD student @idalvos.bsky.social recently presented her research at the 9th Global Meeting of Slavery Past, Present and Future, which was held at the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. She talked about the role of religion in Dutch and Spanish free womb discussions in the 1850s and 1870s.
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Including 'Ethics in #Caribbean #Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future', which I co-edit with Eduardo Herrera Malatesta and Maaike de Waal 🎉 It will arrive in January 2026! ✨️
New Books Alert! 📣 Our Fall & Winter 2025 season is here! Visit upress.ufl.edu/Fall2025 to browse our new books scheduled to be published between Sep 2025 and Feb 2026.
🎨 Catalog cover artwork by Karen Rifas, from MIAMI’S ART BOOM: FROM LOCAL VISION TO INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE by Elisa Turner.
🎨 Catalog cover artwork by Karen Rifas, from MIAMI’S ART BOOM: FROM LOCAL VISION TO INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE by Elisa Turner.
June 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Including 'Ethics in #Caribbean #Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future', which I co-edit with Eduardo Herrera Malatesta and Maaike de Waal 🎉 It will arrive in January 2026! ✨️
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Finally! Abortion laws in the UK have been outdated and inhumane.
Nobody should be prosecuted for having to make the decision to have an abortion.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nobody should be prosecuted for having to make the decision to have an abortion.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
MPs vote to end prosecution for late term abortion in England and Wales
Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi led the call to decriminalise the 1% of abortions that happen after 24 weeks.
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June 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Finally! Abortion laws in the UK have been outdated and inhumane.
Nobody should be prosecuted for having to make the decision to have an abortion.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nobody should be prosecuted for having to make the decision to have an abortion.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
In March 1804, Juliana Sophia ran from her enslaver in St. Croix, Danish West Indies, seeking freedom for her unborn child. Hers is one of many instances where women sought freedom for the next generation in the #Caribbean - either alone, or with their children, parents, partners, and friends.
June 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In March 1804, Juliana Sophia ran from her enslaver in St. Croix, Danish West Indies, seeking freedom for her unborn child. Hers is one of many instances where women sought freedom for the next generation in the #Caribbean - either alone, or with their children, parents, partners, and friends.
This week, project PhD candidate @idalvos.bsky.social is at the #DigitalHumanities conference #DHBenelux2025 in Amsterdam! 2025.dhbenelux.org
June 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This week, project PhD candidate @idalvos.bsky.social is at the #DigitalHumanities conference #DHBenelux2025 in Amsterdam! 2025.dhbenelux.org
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I had fun talking about the pro-natalist movement in America with The Guardian's Today in Focus:
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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Making America pregnant again: the pro-natalist movement – podcast
Moira Donegan on the different groups of people who want the US population to produce more babies
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June 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I had fun talking about the pro-natalist movement in America with The Guardian's Today in Focus:
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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My guest essay for @nytimes.com about Adriana Smith. This situation is a tragedy from top to bottom, and there is so much complexity that can't be teased out in so few words. May she and the family left behind find peace soon.
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Opinion | A Brain-Dead Woman Is Being Kept on Machines to Gestate a Fetus. It Was Inevitable.
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May 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My guest essay for @nytimes.com about Adriana Smith. This situation is a tragedy from top to bottom, and there is so much complexity that can't be teased out in so few words. May she and the family left behind find peace soon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
Yesterday project postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social was at the opening event for the new Centre for #Digital and Computational #Humanities here in #Copenhagen! Exciting to see the start of this new hub where scholars can come together and learn from each other 😊 cdch.ku.dk
Centre for Digital and Computational Humanities – University of Copenhagen
cdch.ku.dk
May 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Yesterday project postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social was at the opening event for the new Centre for #Digital and Computational #Humanities here in #Copenhagen! Exciting to see the start of this new hub where scholars can come together and learn from each other 😊 cdch.ku.dk
Welcome to the Racialized Motherhood page! 🦋 You can read about our project goals in this interview with PI @silvaperez.bsky.social - dff.dk/en/our-funde...
Natália da Silva Perez
dff.dk
May 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Welcome to the Racialized Motherhood page! 🦋 You can read about our project goals in this interview with PI @silvaperez.bsky.social - dff.dk/en/our-funde...